Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 on Nostr: libraries, bookclubs, friend recommendations... "word of mouth" has ALWAYS been the ...

libraries, bookclubs, friend recommendations... "word of mouth" has ALWAYS been the PRIME way people discovered books, that predates all the tech, continued through all the tech and now that the tech is EXTRA shitty, it's coming back.

See also: rise of indie bookstores that are engines of recommendation too.

Ex: three books I have on hold at the library: one I found on a blog post about romantasies, one I've been meaning to read forever, and one was cited in another book

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